POLITICAL PARLEY. The Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales has appealed to members of Parliament/ to pass tho Women's Franchise Bill. Mr. McMahon has been elected for tho Uralla-Walcha seat, by a majority of 30 votes over Mr. Marsh. The Premier says that the sooner New South Wales sinks her differ ences in regard to the Federal capital the sooner she will get it. The revenue for the colony since January 1st shows an increase of £118,000, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The Premier believes that the present day sittings of the Legisla tive Assembly may lead to the day time being always cho«en for the meeting of Parliament. A West Australian Chamber of Mines deputation has handed to the Agent-General in London a petition against the West Australian Con cilliation and Arbitration Bill. The New South Wales Alliance has issued a manifesto claiming that the electors shall have the oppor tunity by means of local and State option, of dealing with the question...

The Legislative Council. From an able article in tin*. Barrier Miner , the daily paper which un doubtedly at present voices the opinion of the whole of the Federal electorate of Broken Hill, we extract the following remarks : — Mr. Buzacott had evidently pre pared himself to deliver a charac teristic, closely reasoned, thoughtful address on the second reading of the Mines (Eight Hours) Bill in the Legislative Council. True, the Broken Hill mineowners, who had been consulted through their managers about it, had offered no objection to it. True, also, the Assembly had passed the second reading almost unanimously ; a division had not even been called for. And true, too, the bill sought only to express in statute law what has been for years the law of custom in this colony and has for 20 years been even the statute law of Victoria, where mining lias been so consistently prosperous and where such economical work is done. Those members who were most directly in terested in passing it reso...

a summer mmd EXCURSION j ; TO Till'. j MARVELLOUS WEST COAST BOUND! OF NEW ZEALAND. IN JANUARY, WO! 24tii SEASON. Minitonti.1. Waita(Wl tons), ONE OF THE Sl'l.ENui D S L'EAftlERf OF THE UNION LINE \A/ILL be despatched from Melbourn on Thursday, Jan 3, 1V01, tuuin Excursionists for an extended trip to tlv WEST COAST SOUNDS and EAS'. COAST PORTS OF THE MIDDL3 ISLAND of NEW ZEALAND, callm( at Hobart and touching at Stewart Is. land en route, visiting the moat famou of the Sounds, and affording Excursion; ists an opportunity of viewing tli, Su herlaud Falls (tho highest in th world) during the stay of the steamer l Milford Sound. The trip, which takt the form of au extended picnic, wi occupy about one month. PASSENGERS can proceed by tt ordiuary steamers of tho Company froi , Sydney, either via Auckland or Welling) Ion, joining the steamer at Port Oho} merB, or can rail from Sjdnoy -! Melbourne at special rates to Conner with the steamer there. Excursions to Taomanla. I The favourite st...

CAYENNE. ( Romp , Colonial and Imported ) Said that some of the divorce suits next year will be made of khaki. After South Africa, China. When we get to the end of the Boer we naturally meet the pig tail. Che Chinese must now go in for the only form of lying which they dislike. They will have to lie low. The Celestials will see the fruits of their labors when they get their dessert from our services in China. Lying in state has two different meanings. In Europe it means funeral rites for the great. In China it describes as Imperial edict. Adelaide Quiz introduces a ' Barber ' column. The wheeze was played out 20 years ago in London, and Sydney is getting tired of it. A lady advertises in the Herald that she can recommend ' a good general.' Why not write the Colonial Secretary, or the ' Military Com mittee V The fashion of rouging the ears has been adopted in Paris. If it should ever be pronounced good taste to rouge the nose, a few well known Sydneyites will be proud men. A Sunday p...

If. NEVER PUT OFF TILL TO-MORROW THAT If WHICH YOU CAN DO TO- DAY. ? tV' ' Fill up the following Form, cut it out at once, put it in an envelope with the Stamps or Postal Note you can got at any $-;?. Post Office, and send it on — §fe RIGHT STRAIGHT AWAY! Tftki Publish# of I' / CDe RwsRtter, | ? AN AUSTRALIAN PAPER FOR AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE. %?- |W: ' 3 Montague Chambers, |* Elizabeth Street, Sydney. ' S*rt | . Please send me ClK I2£ti)$l£flTCr for ? 'months, for which I enclose ? * (Stamps |;;'u- Postal Note). S' Name ? Full Postal Address ? ? ? ? '?K Please say whether the name should be preceded by Mr., Mrs., Miss, or Rev., etc. While free postage continues in N. S.W., enclose is. id. for three months, 2s. 2d. for six months, 01 V : 4c. 4d. for twelve months' subscription. Outside the colony the postage is one half-penny per copy. Should a charge for postage be hereafter made iu N. S.W subscribers will have the (V j ooit debited to their account. ? ? 1 ... . . — .. . ? ? s.. ^ I *VV ...

WITHIN THE RING. There has been a good deal of quiet talk over the retirement of Mr. Wise from the Legislative Assembly, and the general opinion doubts the motive assigned for the step. The belief is that the Attorney-General is preparing to flit, and that his concern for the Upper House legislation is a feint. Latterly he has been wholly away from Parliament, and wholly in a southern colony ; and the Assembly was beginning to ask questions. Retiring to the Upper House, he can more seriously and more con tinuously have those visitations of insomnia, and at the same time fix up matters in Melbourne and elsewhere with a view to securing the federal premiership for Mr. Barton and the attorneygeneral ship or some other post for him sel f. Mr. Wise is not to be blamed. Who can condemn his self con cern ; or his effort for Mr. Barton ? This has clearly been their main federal inspiration, and large numbers of people have endorsed the business. It has been re marked that the Herald still w...

The ? Rewsletter* A Critical, Social, Dramatic, Sporting, Political and General ^newspaper for is-e People. NlilTHHR HY HEAR, NOR BY FAVOR, BUT BY TRUTH ALONE. Duties of Citizenship. Tin; most important of all citizen duties is to render sanitary the con ditions of city life. The old saving that the devil made the towns and God made the country, has perhaps much truth in it, and the aim, therefo e, of all sanitary laws should he to have as much as possible of God's country in the devil's town. The parks and open spaces which have been saved from destructive vandalism should be maintained intact for all time, no matter, what may be the plausible pretext to interfere with them. Pure air, pure water, plenty of open spaces, and good facilities for public bathing, are all among the aims of a proper city sanitation. Sydney has most of these, and its situation and sur roundings should make it a para dise of cleanliness, comfort and health. But according to Dr. Zilliman, who eloquently refe...

KENSINGTON RACES. Considering so many racing men are at tho present time in Melbourne there was an exceedingly good atten dance at the Kensington meeting on Wednesday. Two first favcrities, Sinking Fund, 8st. 6lb. (Albrecht) I and Polly, lOst. (Qnain) got home in Fifteen Hands and Fourteen Hands Handicaps, their respective odds being 6 and 5 to 4 against. Gladys, 8st. 3lb. (Mooriey\ Talana, 7st. 101b. (Connell), Disfigured, 7st. 41b. (Oashman), and Gilpin, 8st. 61b. ( Albrecht') won the Fourteen-one, I Trial Stakes, Fourteen-two, and Kensington Handicaps, starting at 5, 10, 3, and 2 to one against res pectively. Wells was cautioned for the manner in which he rode Friend less in the Fifteen Hands Handicap.

ABOUT TOWN AMD ELSEWHERE. A perfect j udgo will read each work of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ. The eminent author of that elegant poem 1 The Absent-Minded Ueggar,' is eaid to have stated that in his opinion Australia and New Zea land are the dullest and most unin teresting places in the world. We ate probably mnch obliged to Mr. Ki, ling for his good opinion of our people and country, and I return the compliment by giving it as my private and confidential opinion that Mr. Rudyard Kipling h»s lost 'a little bit off the top,' that his so-called poetry in general is utter rot, only popular with a certain class because of its vulgarity, and that the A.M. B. especially contains not one single line of poetry, but is a low vulgar libel on the men whose welfare the writer protends to desire, that the song is brutal in its suggestiveness, and that every woman who ever sang it while so doing should have covered her face with a veil and have appeared in public under an unkno...

' I have had twenty years' experience of newspaper advertising, and havs spent hundreds of thousands of doll are with the daily newspapers, but I am mostly using the weeiclies now. A man picks up a daily and glances at the telegrams first, then perhaps at the report of a meeting in which he is interested, or at the sporting or some other special item, and then throws it away. He hasn't time to oven think of the advertisements, and if he had, in a few hours the paper is useless, because ifc is superseded by the next issue. But a weekly is different. It goes home, its articles are read, it is looked through from beginning to end, and it lasts until the next issue appears a week later. But, above all, it is carefully read on Sunday. All tho great advertiaing firms of the world are with me in this. Look at the marvellous growth of the American and English weeklies during the last ten years, look how the adver tisements are poured into them, and you will understand. However, I speak from...

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IN FRONT AND BEHIND. (By Valentine Bay.) THE WEEK'S PROGRAMME. The Criterion — Robbery Under Arms. Her Majesty's — Magda. The Royal — A Trip to Chicago. The Tivoli — Lottie Collins. The Standard — See Advertisement. Tho Town Hall—Organ Recitals. Cyclorama — Jerusalem and Illusions. Mr. Alfred Dampier always has a good trump card — in this country at any rate— in Robbery Under Arms, and the present revival at the Criterion of Rolf Boldrewood's masterpiece has proved merely a re petition of past successes, financially and artistically. Every night during the past week the house has been crowded, and the reception given to Captain Starlight (excellently and dashingly played by Mr. Dampier) could only have been excelled had Jimmy Governor himself been cast in the part. Miss Rose Dampier was Aileen Marston, and Miss Catherine Russell played her original character of Kate Morrison — both ladies doing 4 excellently well.' Mr. W. H. Smith wa3 a capital Warrigal, while Mr. F. C. Appleton, as...